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To: C David White who wrote (17632)7/6/1999 2:40:00 PM
From: Mephisto   of 64865
 
[Windows CE may be here today, but the Palm OS is outselling it massively. And a lot of developers are gettin' tired of MS "standard-setting" -- like a Java Virtual Machine that's buggy......... A lot of people are waking up and smelling the coffee.]

Your comment about the Palm Pilot reminded me of an article I read recently in an older edition of The Economist

Have you heard of PISON, a private French company? I believe it has a gadget similar to the architecture of The Palm Pilot.

Pison has fostered a company called Symbian. The company believes open standards are critical because it gives customers confidence. NOK, MOT, Ericsson & Matsushita (spell?) have put a stake in Symbian which has 300 employees.

I believe Symbian's product is called EPOC which was designed for mobile devices. The article pointed out that unlike MSFT CE, EPOC makes better use of limited battery and memory. Evidently, speech will drive the need for better batteries and memory.

The belief is that telephony and PC's will converge. Symbian's parents do not want to end up as distributors for intellectual property held by MSFT.

I do not have a copy of the article so I do not recall the publication date.

Regards,

Mephisto

PS: Sorry if I misspelled company names.
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